Remove Qone8.com (Start.qone8.com) Hijacker / Browser Redirect

Qone8.com obtrusively meddles with one’s online surfing by hijacking the web browser on the affected computer. Ultimately, this activity leads to your default homepage getting modified (to start.qone8.com) and your web search provider changed in a forcible fashion (to search.qone8.com). Moreover, no matter how hard you try to manually restore the right preferences, Qone8 will keep coming back despite your effort.

Whereas the web page concerned has not actually been found malicious, the sole fact of this URL popping up without your consent is a nuisance in itself; furthermore, the associated symptoms are likely to testify to the presence of adware or other malicious code inside your machine. As the recent security research shows, this hijacker tends to emanate from downloads or updates of certain applications, some examples of which are Omiga-Plus, GoPlayer and Desk 365. A distinguishing trait of this adware is that it’s not labeled as Qone8 or anything similar in the Control Panel or amongst your browser add-ons. Instead, the extensions responsible for homepage and search engine replacement are third-party ones, most likely something you installed recently.

The underlying reasons for Qone8.com jacking up your web browser are all about gaining illicit online advertising revenue. Entering a particular query will in fact return search results, but quite a few ads alongside as well. Furthermore, up-to-date information about Internet users’ search preferences is fairly valuable for advertising companies, so it’s basically a product for sale which is in great demand. Therefore, by enforcing the use of their own search engine in such an unethical way, the people behind it are obviously seeking profit from generating traffic to certain online services.

Getting rid of this hijacker and stopping it from further web surfing interference is a matter of several phases. First off, you will need to utilize an automatic cleanup tool to detect and eliminate the malicious code proper. Then it’s recommended to double-check and verify whether the issue has been completely addressed, and if certain side effects are still there – manually restore the affected web browser to its normal state by remediating the changes previously made by Start.qone8.com adware.

Use reliable security software to spot and delete Qone8 hijacker

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CCleaner by Piriform is an efficient solution designed to automatically uninstall persistent malware such as the unwanted browser extensions related to Qone8 hijacker, as well as cease the web surfing redirect activity.

1. Download free or paid version of CCleaner by Piriform and save it to your Desktop. Install and run the software.
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2. Click on the Cleaner button in the left-hand navigation menu, select Windows and Applications tabs in turn, and click Analyze option for each. Once the analysis has been completed, click Run Cleaner .
3. Now go to Tools in the navigation menu and select the Startup option. Search the entries under all available tabs (Windows – Context Menu) for dubious items that might be related to Qone8 adware (Wsys Control, DProtect, Omiga-Plus, etc.) and choose Disable and Delete for each one.
4. You can also use the Uninstall functionality under Tools to completely get rid of browser add-ons / toolbars that cannot be deleted manually.
5. Uninstall malicious extension(s) from Control Panel:

When on the dedicated screen for program removal, look for the following items:
– Desk 365
– Omiga-Plus
– Extended Protection
– Wsys Control
– eSave Security Control
– DProtect
– New Tabs Uninstall
– BrowserProtect

If located on the list, these should be uninstalled immediately as they were found to cause search.qone8.com to show up in one’s web browser. Anything like Qone8 proper is not likely to be indicated on the list, so do not bother searching for it. It’s affiliated programs / extensions to blame.

Remove Qone8.com/start.qone8.com/search.qone8.com redirect from your browser

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Qone8.com/start.qone8.com removal from Mozilla Firefox

Remove start.qone8.com redirect (search.qone8.com browser hijacker) from Google Chrome

Remove start.qone8.com redirect (search.qone8.com browser hijacker) from Internet Explorer

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Double-check

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Scan the system with Bitdefender Internet Security again to make sure all registry entries and junk files added by Qone8 hijacker have been cleaned up. This step will help you ascertain that no remainders of the infection are still there in case you missed something or if the adware has restored some of its components after manual removal.